Enterprise Architect

AXA Spain·Madrid, Spain

What they offer

  • Permanent contract

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What they ask for

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    AXA Spain doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Work on-site in Madrid

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have 5+ years of experience

    Senior-level role.

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About the role

MISSION: Define, evolve, and govern AXA Spain's enterprise architecture, ensuring its alignment with the company's strategy and translating it into concrete action plans and roadmaps that enable business transformation. To this end, the role must establish and maintain architecture standards, lead process reengineering initiatives, evaluate and guide key technology decisions, manage the application portfolio and architecture inventory, and ensure the coherence of solutions designed by the different teams, acting as an architecture reference and a point of connection between business, IT, and AXA Group. FUNCTIONS: • Define and maintain AXA Spain's target architecture - Define, evolve, and maintain AXA Spain's target architecture, comprehensively covering the domains of business, applications, data, and technology architecture. Ensure that this architecture is clearly documented, shared, and understood by the involved areas, and serves as a reference framework for decision-making and solution design across the organization. • Align architecture and strategy, turning vision into execution - Ensure ongoing alignment between the target architecture and the company's strategy, translating strategic guidelines into clear roadmaps for business, transformation, and technology initiatives. Ensure the proper handover of these roadmaps to project and delivery areas so that the architecture materializes into concrete, prioritized, and achievable plans. • Define and consolidate architecture standards - Lead the definition, review, and update of AXA Spain's Architecture standards framework, including Architecture Principles, Patterns, Blueprints, Reference Architectures, and Tech Standards. Ensure their alignment with AXA Group guidelines, their dissemination to technical and business teams, and their effective application in projects, promoting reuse, consistency, and the reduction of complexity and technical debt. • Lead process reengineering and transformation initiatives - Drive and lead business process reengineering initiatives, providing a transformational approach. Conduct as-is analysis, identify inefficiencies, redundancies, costs, and bottlenecks, and design to-be processes that optimize the end-to-end value chain. Ensure that process improvements are integrated with the enterprise architecture and supported by the necessary technological capabilities to capture the expected benefits. • Technologically evaluate new applications and solutions - Analyze and assess the technological viability of new applications, components, and solutions, identifying risks, dependencies, impacts on the current ecosystem, and possible alternatives. Issue well-founded recommendations and support technology investment decisions, ensuring coherence with the target architecture, defined standards, and security, compliance, and performance constraints. • Govern the Application Portfolio (APM) and the architecture inventory - Participate in the effective governance of the Application Portfolio Management (APM) process, maintaining a complete, up-to-date, and reliable inventory of applications and architecture assets. Evaluate the application lifecycle (adoption, maintenance, evolution, retirement), identifying redundancies and obsolete applications, and proposing rationalization, consolidation, and modernization plans aligned with the company's strategy. • Participate in and influence the Design Authority - Actively participate in the Design Authority process and forums, reviewing and validating relevant solution design proposals. Ensure that design decisions comply with the target architecture, AXA Spain and AXA Group standards, and consider cross-cutting impacts on business, data, security, and technology. Issue criteria and recommendations that guide projects towards sustainable and scalable solutions. PROFILE: • Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, or similar • Enterprise Architecture (min. 5 years of experience) - Proven experience in defining and evolving enterprise architectures in medium-to-large organizations, covering the domains of business, data, applications, and technology. Ability to develop target architecture models, roadmaps, and transformation plans, as well as to govern their implementation. Familiarity with reference frameworks (e.g., TOGAF or others) and with Enterprise Architecture practices in complex environments. • Solution Architecture (min. 5 years of experience) - Solid experience in end-to-end solution design, integrating multiple systems and applications, both on-premise and in the cloud. Ability to translate business requirements into viable, scalable, and secure solution architectures, aligned with the target architecture and corporate standards. Regular participation in design forums (Design Authority), defending and justifying architectural decisions. • Functional knowledge of the insurance sector (min. 4 years of experience) - Deep understanding of core insurance business processes (underwriting, pricing, issuance, claims, billing/payments, renewals, etc.), with an end-to-end view of the value chain. Experience working with insurance business areas (Non-Life, Life, Health, etc.), understanding their needs and constraints, and being able to translate them into business and IT capabilities and solutions. • Experience in transformation and process reengineering initiatives - Active participation in business and/or digital transformation programs, including process reengineering (as-is / to-be), value chain optimization, and operating model redesign. Ability to identify inefficiencies and propose integrated process and technology solutions, with a focus on results (cost reduction, cycle time improvement, customer experience enhancement, etc.). • Artificial Intelligence and agent-based architectures - Experience in the practical application of Artificial Intelligence solutions in enterprise environments, as well as knowledge of architectures and their integration into the corporate systems ecosystem. Ability to identify use cases, assess their technical feasibility, and align them with the target architecture and business needs. • Application Portfolio Governance (APM) - Experience in managing and rationalizing application portfolios in complex environments: asset inventory, lifecycle assessment, analysis of redundancies and obsolescence, and definition of consolidation and modernization plans. Familiarity with APM tools or practices and with the construction and maintenance of architecture repositories. • Common technology environments in large companies - Experience working with hybrid architectures (on-premise / cloud), with special appreciation for knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, OpenShift, or others), API and microservices-based architectures, system integration, and batch processing. Knowledge of integration models (synchronous/asynchronous), messaging, and data management. • Work with multidisciplinary stakeholders and change management - Proven experience working with multiple areas (business, IT, security, risk, compliance, etc.), facilitating consensus and managing expectations. Ability to communicate complex architecture concepts in accessible language, both to technical and business profiles, and to support the organizational change associated with architectural decisions. • Key competencies: • Leadership and team management. • Results orientation and problem-solving. • Strategic planning capability. • Effective communication with technical and non-technical profiles. • Proactivity and innovation. • Desirable • Experience using EA tools for modeling, application inventory management, APM, and roadmap definition (e.g., SAP LeanIX). • Participation in legacy modernization and rationalization initiatives (rehosting, refactoring, replacement), preferably in large-scale environments. • Experience in transformation programs moving mainframe platforms to modern architectures (cloud, microservices, APIs), including integration and migration risk management. • Knowledge of data architectures (data lake, data warehouse, MDM) and how to integrate them into the enterprise architecture. • Familiarity with security-by-design principles, technology risk management, and regulatory requirements applicable to the insurance sector (e.g., DORA). Why join AXA Spain? AXA Spain is one of the most relevant Talent Centers for AXA, with more than 3,000 employees working on local and international projects. We are proud to have been awarded various certifications such as Top Employer and Top LinkedIn Company, thanks to our environment of development, diversity, and inclusion. We work for the progress of society by protecting what matters. We create sustainable long-term value while protecting our customers, our economy, our environment, and society. Here, you will be able to grow professionally, work with flexibility, and be part of a team that drives change and innovation. At AXA, we actively promote Diversity and Inclusion by offering equal opportunities. Possession of a disability certificate will be positively valued. If you are looking for a place where you can make a difference, we look forward to seeing you at AXA Spain!

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AXA Spain

AXA Spain

Insurance

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145000 employees